Film Review: Plastic City

October 05, 2008 Yu Lik Wai's overblown crime story "Plastic City" tells of an aging Chinese godfather to a crime syndicate in Sao Paolo, Brazil, with a mystical connection to the Amazon jungle. Part conventional mob yarn and part comic book fantasy, the film's setting among the ex-patriot community of Sao Paolo, said to be the biggest in the world, is fascinating initially, but the Chinese director's indulgence in wild fantasy becomes absurd. Anthony Wong plays Yuda, the crime boss who's looking for a way out so that his adopted son Kirin (Jo Odagiri) can take over.

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